has anyone experience of installing Debian on a Transmeta Crusoe?
The reason I ask is there is a well priced notebook (we are talking under $1500 new retail) distributed by Protac. URL to specs for interested: <http://www.protac.com.au/a531.pdf>
There were issues with the previous model, the A530, but the Google I found was oldish. (The main issue seemed to be vol control on the Sound at the time)
Yeah yeah. Sony were shipping Crusoes in the Vaio C1 for a while. I think they've switched to Centrino in the newer models, though. :-(
You won't have any trouble with the CPU. A basic kernel will install quite happily, because the Crusoe literally emulates the standard Intel x86. Once it's installed you'll want to compile your own kernel with Transmeta support so you can use the longrun utility (debian does include this) to tune CPU speed.
I'm only speaking for the CPU, though. Wouldn't have a clue if there's any problems with the other bits in this laptop. :-)
One advantage of these notebooks is there is no M$ tax.
The price looks intriguing, and I'm a big fan of the Crusoes. Thanks for the link!
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